This page provides essential information on how to prepare a camera-ready paper for the WSC6 conference book. The book will be published by Springer Engineering by the end of 2001, and its provisional title is "Soft Computing in Industrial Applications - Recent Advances".
For having a smooth publication process, we very hope on the cooperation of all authors. Please follow the guidelines as close as possible, respect the page limit, and do not forget to sign and send a Copyright Transfer Form.
The book will include all kinds of accepted and active contributions to WSC6: regular papers, papers in invited sessions, invited papers, tutorials and surveys. However, inclusion in the book is according to the following conditions:
We also have to check formal issues:
If such technical problems occur, we hope to resolve them on a personal base.
Only in some cases: we are going to review the tutorial and survey papers, and all conditional accepted papers. Authors of extended abstracts, who did not provide a full paper and/or presentation at WSC6 (who did not "show up at the conference") are already excluded.
Authors should address all comments from the reviews of the abstract, and all issues brought up during the conference in the camera-ready paper. Then, the CRP of maximum 12 pages has to be typeset according to the Springer guidelines for multiauthor books in the Engineering series. The Springer format asks for a smaller page format, thus it is very likely that some papers will exceed the 12 page limit. Please try to reduce the number of pages as far as possible. If you have any problem with the final submission and formatting please contact the WSC6 On-line Conference Office.
This is a snapshot of the website http://www.springer.de/engine/authors/index.html, taken on October 16, 2001:
For Word users, we strongly recommend to download and install the indicated Word template from the Springer website at the link "Multiauthor Books." Also, we provide an example file here:
so you do not have to study the "Instructions for Authors" in full detail. Have a look into this Word example file to get to know about the most important issues. You may also re-use the Word file itself for preparing your full paper.
For TeX users, follow the indicated link on the Springer website for TeX users, then select the "Proceedings" link for your TeX version to get to the ftp-server, and download the set of stylefiles provided in the directory "author" (cl2emult.cls, cropmark.sty, engi.sty, sprmindx.sty, subeqnar.sty). There is also the example file author.tex (incl. a figure file). We recommend to modify its heading a little bit when preparing a full paper for WSC6: see here for details.
Note: TeX formated files looks different from Word formated files. This is correct. For example, headings use the font Helvetica in Word documents, while they are set in Times in TeX documents.
This time, submission is via email. Please send either
or
with xxx the assigned papernumber, to WSC6 Virtual Office. In case of a LaTeX-submission, there may be additional images or bib-files belonging to the submission. Put all of them into a single archive file (tar.gz, .gzip, .zip, .sit,...) and send them together with the tex-source to the assigned email.
This time, do not send PDFs or PostScript files!!!
If you are using another text processing program, ask WSC6 Virtual Office before submitting. In particular, Framemaker or StarOffice should cause no problem...
For questions and inquiries, get in contact with WSC6 Virtual Office.